It’s one of those “Only in Thailand” sorts of headlines. I assume that skinny prostitutes extorting vexed clients is perfectly okay. I mean, what does her being overweight have to do with this story and why is it in the leadoff sentence? You can thank TravelHappy for the catch.
Just a cool little tidbit for those of you who correspond with Thai people or would simply like a rough translation of websites that are written in Thai. Google has added Thai language support in Google Translate. The only gripe I might have about it is that it translates English -> Thai Script or Thai …
From the Bangkok Post Assoc Prof Sukhum Chaloeysap of Suan Dusit Poll on Saturday said that he was not surprised with the report that Ministry of Culture had found more than 1,000 websites claiming to be by university students selling sex. The quoted price ranges from 1,500-3,000 baht or higher for very good looking female …
Another interesting article in the Bangkok Post. Many teenagers in Bangkok liked to use marijuana, followed by amphetamines and weeds, according Abac Poll for Assumption University. The poll’s recent study on drug abusers was conducted in Bangok involving people between 12 and 65 years old from 2,452 households from January 2 to 17, 2009. 43.6 …
Here was a recent Breaking News article in the Bangkok Post: Approximately 1.2 million Thais contracted Aids and the ratio of men to women with the disease was about two to one, according to the Public Health Ministry’s 24-year report from 1984 to September 2008. Public Health spokesman Suphan Srithamma on Sunday said there were …
Whenever I read the English press in Thailand there always seems to be a phrase or quote that just makes you scratch your head. In this story about a paedophile ring down in Pattaya they quote Pol Col Suwitpol as saying the following: ”Most of the foreigners who bought children from the service have been …
I know this has been covered on many other websites before but I thought I would post something here as I saw one of these fake monks the other night and it got me to thinking why more people aren’t aware that these monks are not real monks. In fact, most aren’t even Thai nor …
I certainly don’t wish anyone hard times or any sort of financial despair but let’s face it, what I write isn’t really going to make a difference whether or not it actually happens. All I can do is speculate on what happens if government predictions hold true and tourist numbers are cut in half in …
This post was written by Matt from Phuket Vogue. No doubt you will have met a few characters in Bangkok. There are some, however, who are just so surreal that you wonder what planet they come from. The most notable characters I met during my two years in Bangkok were the kind of guys you …